La Cremonese “The Cremonese”
“La Cremonese” “The Cremonese”
Technical description:
Soundboard: Rigorously hand-split spruce from the Panaveggio forest in Val di Fiemme
Bottom Deck and Body Sides :curly mapleInserts in back, sides and fillets:entirely made from pernambuco wood (brazilwood)
Handle : cedar
Fretboard : Ebony
Tuning fork : 664
Pitch : 45 hz (about 1.5 octave beyond the open low E, 6th string = 82.4 hz)
Maximum resonant frequency of the case : 3132 hz
The Story of this Guitar
As Gabriel Carcia Marquez says ... “Inspiration gives no forewarnings.” Thus it was that when visiting the violin museum in Cremona, and more specifically, room 5, known as “the treasure chest” in which some instruments of the masters Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri are kept, the inspiration came ...
So it was that on returning from that trip, once I arrived in my Atelier, I began to conceive this guitar that I meant to be my personal homage to the works of these great masters of the past who, with their art, have constantly inspired me since the beginning ...
